Equipment: the fashion insider's ultimate label

Equipment has relaunched its silky, sexy shirts for a new generation.

BY Sarah Mower |
24 November 2010

Carine Roitfeld Photo: REX

Once you have your perfect pants, the next question, of course, is what would you wear with them? Easiest answer for everyday purposes: a shirt-blouse hybrid of the kind which is ideally nailed by a company called Equipment. For anyone who was around in the mid-Eighties in London, that name is a blast from the past. It was stocked by Joseph and founded by Christian Restoin, who is the husband of Carine Roitfeld, and, I like to think, influenced by her ineffable style savvy, while she was at home bringing up their children. The drapey, silky quality of the shirts in many subtle colours still carry the cool
imprimatur
of those times, making them an insider's classic - and a Christmas present to impress any woman who knows her labels.